Episodes
Chips with Everything
September 28, 1975
Pip is a socialist who has seen the squalor of the East End, typified by greasy cafés offering 'chips with everything'. Pip is also the only privately-educated recruit in a draft of other National Service recruits. He's tried to buck the system by not applying for an officer's commission.
The Little Minister
November 2, 1975
In rural 1840s Scotland, Gavin Dishart arrives to become the new 'little minister' of Thrums's Auld Licht church. He meets a mysterious young gypsy girl in the dens and to his horror Babbie draws him into her escape from the soldiers after she incites a Luddite riot. But unknown to Gavin, Babbie is more than she seems, and they must overcome her secret, the villagers' fears of her, and--worst of all--Gavin's devotion to his mother's sensibilities, before they can openly declare their love.
Love's Labour's Lost
December 14, 1975
A scholarly king and his three companions swear off the society of women for three years, only to have a diplomatic visit from a French princess and her three ladies-in-waiting thwart their intentions.
When We Are Married
December 29, 1975
At the turn of the 20th century, a set of long-married couples discover that due to a bureaucratic quirk they have never actually been married.
Trilby
January 24, 1976
Trilby, a young Irish girl in Paris, falls under the influence of the sinister hypnotist Svengali.
Loyalties
February 28, 1976
The Chester Mystery Cycle
April 18, 1976
A quartet of mystery plays originally based in Chester.
French Without Tears
May 16, 1976
The romantic and comic adventures of a quintet of young Englishmen in France, on a course to learn the language.
